Simplifying the parallelization of scientific codes by a function-centric approach in Python

Computational Science and Discovery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Nilsen, Jon K ^a   Cai, Xing ^a,b   Høyland, Bjørn ^a   Langtangen, Hans Petter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TASK; PARALLEL PYTHON; PARALLELIZATIONS; PARALLELIZING; PYTHON CODE; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES; SERIAL CODES; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; SPECIFIC TASKS; THIN LAYERS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 78649777111     PISSN: 17494680     EISSN: 17494699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1749-4699/3/1/015003     Document Type: Article

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